Improvement in churns



1 BLUST.

CH'U'RN'.

1?a.tented Aug. 22, 1876.

NI'IED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAWRENGE BLUS'I, OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

Speeification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 181,400, dated August 22, 1876 pplication filed Ju ly 12, 1876.

T0 all whom z't may ooncern:

Be i1; known that I, LAWRENGE BLUSE, 0f New Albany, in the coui1Ly ot' Floyd 2md in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohurns; and (10 hereby deolare tha-i: the following is a full, dem, and exacl: description there0f, reference being had -t0 the ccon1panying drawings, and 110 the letters of reference marked thereon, making zu part of this specification.

The natura 0f n1y invention consists in the cox'1struct-ion of a churn, as hereinafter more fully sei; forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art t0 which' my invention appert ains to make and use the Same, I Will now proceed t0 more fully describe it, ieference being 'had 110 the accompanying drawings, forming a, pamt 0f this specificatiou, in which F igure l represents t-he cburn-box, and the frame-work adjoining the same, showing the dasher-operating devices. Fig. 2 represents a section taken through the centenof the churn-dasher.

A represents a frame-work composed 0f three 0r more bezuns connected by cross-bars ab the ends. Upou this fmme is 'erected a centml verticnl Standard, B, suitably braced, as shown. In a mortise 011 the.top-of the standard is piv0ted a horizontal rooking bean1, O. Two short uprights, ff, erected 011 one en l of the bed frmne-work A, have slots in their upper ends, into whi0h are pivoted long horizontal levers G G, extending to the opposite end of the frame. Bach lever or treadle G is connected, By a rod. 01 cord, a a, to the rocking-beam C, as shown.

the dasher-shaft D is pivoted 130 0ne end 0f the rocking beam O. By aIternateIy-working the levers 01' treadles up and down,'t he rocking beam eauses the up-and-down movement 0f the dasher-shaft and its dasher.

The dasher is constructed. of two side bars,

H, connected t0 a central bar, h. 'Upon the top 0f the bars H is a slz aJs-work I, and secured between smid bars, 011 auch side 0f the bar h, is a hinged and slobted gate, K K. As

the treadles are worked, the dasher passes back und forth through the cream, and with.

The coxnbination of the bed-frame A, stan ard. B, levers G G, rods 01 e0rds a a, rocking beam O, shaft D, and. its dasher, and ehurnbox E, all uonstructed substantially as andfor t-h e purposes seg 'forth. In testimony that; I claim the foregoing I have hereuuto sei: my band this 21st day 0f June, A. D. 1876.

LAWRENOE BLUST.

Witnesses:

WM. W. TULEY, SETH W. TULEY.

'lhe ehurn-box E is' arranged adjacent '00 the frame-work, and 

